Word: sultana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sahibs of the British colony in Singapore had thought it bad enough some years ago when the Sultan married (and subsequently divorced) a Scotswoman who had been the wife of a Singapore physician. A cabaret-girl-Sultana the sahibs considered quite impossible. Social royalists, they ganged up and put moral pressure on the precedent-breaking Sultan by unanimously refusing his invitations, although Miss Hill was properly chaperoned at the palace by her mother. The Sultan had his revenge, by ordering the sahibs off his golf course, their children away from his bandstand...
...dream takes him to old Bagdad, where he is received by the Sultan and Sultana (former Strip-Teaser Gypsy Rose Lee). Eddie earns the gratitude of the harassed Sultan by setting up a New Deal, with himself as Prime Minister. Some of his projects: improved breadlines (one for rye, one for whole-wheat), a tax on wives, bridges for riverless Bagdad* (the rivers to be dug later), dancing lessons for the masses, filling stations for camels...
...Caliph or "pope" of Islam. On the French Riviera, thoroughly deposed so far as Turkey was concerned, lived and still lives "His Imperial Majesty the Caliph Abdul Medjid II" and a ripe 17 was his beauteous daughter Princess Dur-e-Shawar in 1931. Beauteous too was his niece the Sultana Nilofar Hanim, great-granddaughter of Turkish Sultan Murad V. Best of all, the Caliph had no son and his hoary beard was that of a Patriarch unlikely to become again a father. At the death of this pope of Islam, therefore, pious believers would look upon the offspring...
...latest reports nothing in London had pleased the Sheik and his sons so much as the Russian Ballet's performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherezade, an Arabian Nights fantasy in which a Sultana and all her co-wives betray their Sultan on the stage with Negro slaves, afterward are butchered by the Sultan's soldiers. Although cultivated Mayfair and Manhattan consider Scheherezade merely esthetic, the Sheik & Sons watched it with savage joy, their nostrils quivering and eyes bugging as the Negro slaves and fair wives heaved. "The Sheik never mentions his own wives to unbelievers," confided...
...that according to tradition a Sultan of Sulu could not be chosen except by unanimous vote. Therefore they must wait until every datu from the farthest Moro island had arrived. The followers of Rajamuda called her by the names of she-animals. They declared she planned to make herself Sultana or-almost as unforgivable an insult to a warrior race-get the job for her husband, Datu Umbra, or her father-in-law. Datu Amil-bangsa. The princes grumbled, but the proclamation of Rajamuda's accession was withheld and the throne continued last week to tremble in the balance...